Thursday was my "baby's" 4th birthday... I can't believe he's already four. We had our family party today since it is also my "little" brother's 27th. Here are a couple of pictures:


Here he is tearing into his gifts. Yes, he needs a haircut.


Now that we have the house we can actually have parties at *our* house. It was also nice for my parents since it meant they could leave the mess and chaos behind. From the far left: My dad and Sebastian, Seth's mom and Lili, Seth, my brother, me, and Alana is there in the front.


It was a Wiggles themed party. Sebastian loves them.


Me trying to open Sebastian's power rangers. Why do childrens' toys now need a hacksaw and blow torch to get into?

In knitting news, though, guess what I finished? *dances around* My first ever sock... done with the fabulous Jaywalker pattern. I don't have another ball of yarn to finish a second, but since I'm not really all that worried about the yarn being from a different dyelot (due to the verigation that's already in the yarn), I'm just going to pick up another. I love this sock, and the pattern is awesome. It's made with Lionbrand Magic Stripes in the Regatta blue colorway and size 2 dpns (since I knit really tightly with dpns). I just want to take a moment to dedicate this in part to Beth at biggeek since it was really her gorgeous socks that kicked my ass into getting over my sock making fear. Now there will be no stopping me! I've already gotten about 5 new sock patterns really to try.







I'm currently working on another Clapotis using Knitpicks Sock Garden (or Landscape maybe?) in Gardenia. These pictures don't really show true color which bums me out since the colors are really bright and bold. I'm trying the purl the dropped stitch technique with this one.





In the queue after my Clapotis is Glampyre's top down raglan. I can't wait to have a handknit sweater!